After the disclosure of the high-profile attack on Google and other big companies last fall, word quickly leaked out that the flaw used to compromise the search giant was an unpatched problem in Internet Explorer.
The attack on a high-profile event in the heart of the capital is seen as a big symbolic blow to Somalia's attempts to reinvent itself on the international stage after years as a failed state.
People who signed agreements are "salivating over the possibility of being able to make an attack, " says Jeffrey Cohen, a New York lawyer who has represented high-profile divorce clients including musician Lou Reed and author Joseph Heller.